Domain mapping gone wrong

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  helenahalme · Member · Feb 23, 2012 at 6:22 pm

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  Domain mapping done wrong:
  Hi,

  I own two domains, both hosted by WordPress. http://www.helenahalme.com was purchased elsewhere, but moved to WordPress some time ago. I use it as the domain for my blog Helena’s London Life on Blogspot. I edited the DNS settings successfully at the onset, but some four days ago I re-edited the DNS settings to allow Google Apps to verify the domain and allow me to set up email on it.

  The email works perfectly, however, shortly after this the domain http://www.helenahalme started pointing to my other domain and blog on WordPress, Halme Accountancy (domain http://www.halmeaccounts.com).

  Noticing this, I re-edited the DNS settings on WordPress for http://www.helenahalme.com to include the correct Google A and CNAME records. But the domain http://www.helenahlme.com still points to http://www.halmeaccounts.com . This is a real problem for me because none of my followers can see my Helena’s London Life blog.

  I would appreciate a speedy reply,

  Best regards,

  Helena Halme
  Blog url: http://helenahalme.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 24, 2012 at 1:55 am

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  The domain appears to have always been attached that blog, it’s just no longer set as primary via Store -> Domains in your Dashboard.

  If it’s supposed to be mapped to another blog, please tell us the URL of the WordPress.com blog that it should be mapped to.

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  helenahalme · Member · Feb 24, 2012 at 9:04 am

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  It should be mapped to a Blogspot blog, helenahalme.blogspot.com

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  helenahalme · Member · Feb 24, 2012 at 9:07 am

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  I have two domains, one for the halmeaccounts wordpress blog, and one for the helenahalme blogspot blog. Both domains are hosted by WordPress.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 24, 2012 at 10:19 pm

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  You’ll need to follow this guide: http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1233381&page=ts.cs

  The DNS rules can be added via your Custom DNS panel: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/custom-dns/

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  helenahalme · Member · Feb 27, 2012 at 9:45 am

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  I have followed all this guidance more times than I can recall and updated the DNS records even more times, but the domain still points to Halme Accountancy. When I did all this a few months ago, before updating the records for Google Apps, it worked fine. I cannot understand what has changed.

  Is there anyway someone from WordPress could help me with this?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 28, 2012 at 6:19 am

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  It looks like you have the www record set wrong. I just changed that, but it may take up to 72 hours for the changes to propagate to your ISP.